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... honour thee ! What are all the commentaries of all the critics compared to thine ? Immortal bard ! " Here her ladyship paused , and after a moment's meditation drew her patent pencil across the word bard , muttering as she did so , " No ...
... honour thee ! What are all the commentaries of all the critics compared to thine ? Immortal bard ! " Here her ladyship paused , and after a moment's meditation drew her patent pencil across the word bard , muttering as she did so , " No ...
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... honour of being sepulchred among the honourable clay which surrounds it , no one who has dined with her ladyship once but is exceedingly well pleased when an opportunity occurs for dining with her again . But success such as this can be ...
... honour of being sepulchred among the honourable clay which surrounds it , no one who has dined with her ladyship once but is exceedingly well pleased when an opportunity occurs for dining with her again . But success such as this can be ...
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... honour and a pleasure to me . " " Bon ! That little affair is settled then , and most entirely to my satisfaction , I assure you . Will you dine with me to - day , my dear ? My Sunday dinners are never large , ma scelti scelti . " For ...
... honour and a pleasure to me . " " Bon ! That little affair is settled then , and most entirely to my satisfaction , I assure you . Will you dine with me to - day , my dear ? My Sunday dinners are never large , ma scelti scelti . " For ...
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... honoured in the breach than the observance . But this never happened without inciting him to caricature , as it were , his own impertinence , in order to show any such starched and stately questioners of his acknowledged franchise ...
... honoured in the breach than the observance . But this never happened without inciting him to caricature , as it were , his own impertinence , in order to show any such starched and stately questioners of his acknowledged franchise ...
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... honour she could paraphrase Horace , quote Ovid , and invoke Janus , and for whom she could immediately form one of those devoted friend- ships which led to picturesque groupings , piquant whisperings , and the power of opening her ...
... honour she could paraphrase Horace , quote Ovid , and invoke Janus , and for whom she could immediately form one of those devoted friend- ships which led to picturesque groupings , piquant whisperings , and the power of opening her ...
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Page 231 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 189 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — "The foe! They come! They come!" And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering
Page 100 - ERSKINE. Your Lordship may proceed in what manner you think fit. I know my duty as well as your Lordship knows yours. I shall not alter my conduct.
Page 247 - I apprehend," says that learned judge, " it is a rule in the construction of statutes, that, in the first instance, the grammatical sense of the words is to be adhered to. If that is contrary to, or inconsistent with, any expressed intention or any declared purpose of the statute, or if it would involve any absurdity, repugnance, or inconsistency in its different provisions, the grammatical sense must then be modified, extended, or abridged, so far as to avoid such an inconvenience, but no further.
Page 293 - Our sorrow for our sins; and then delights To pardon erring man : Sweet mercy seems Its darling attribute, which limits justice; As if there were degrees in infinite, And infinite would rather want perfection Than punish to extent. Ant. I can forgive A foe; but not a mistress and a friend. Treason is there in its most horrid shape, Where trust is greatest...
Page 292 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Page 83 - ... of steady policy and useful legislation, may be removed by the authority of a new Parliament, which I shall direct to be summoned without delay.
Page 54 - I consider the safety of the state as essentially interwoven with the integrity of the establishment. The established religion is the child of freedom. The reformation grew out of the free spirit of bold investigation : in its turn it repaid the obligation, with more than filial gratitude, and contributed, with all its force, to raise the fabric of our liberties. Our civil and religious liberties would each of them lose much of their security if they were not so deeply indented each with the other.
Page 46 - Theirs was a necessity, real or fancied, but a consistent system ; we pretend no necessity ; we have voluntarily abdicated the means of safety, and we wilfully and uselessly continue the causes of danger. The time to have paused was before we heaved from those sons of earth, the mountains which the wisdom or the terrors of our ancestors had heaped upon them ; but we have raised them up and placed them erect — are we prepared to hurl them down and bury them again...
Page 49 - ... firmness and constancy of his nature, to combine them into an indissoluble alliance against the schemes of despotism and universal domination of the most powerful monarch in Europe, seconded by the ablest generals, at the head of the bravest and best disciplined armies in the world, and wielding, without check or control, the unlimited resources of his empire. He was not a consummate general ; military men will point out his errors ; in that respect Fortune did not favour him, save by throwing...